Small trucks, but back from when small trucks were the only trucks. And had zero options, or features, or style…
Besides an engine, cab, square steel bed and a solid rear axle suspended by leaf springs, there wasn’t much to commercial vehicles, which is why many companies built them. Even Alfa Romeo did basic trucks and off-road jeeps.
Few did them well. Fewer have survived.
You may recognize Hino from the front of the box van that delivered your mattress, but before the company narrowed its focus to medium-duty trucks and busses, it’s another one of those Japanese companies that’s survived longer than entire family trees.
Hino is old enough to trace its roots back to the consolidation of two Tokyo electric utility companies at the turn of the 20th Century.
First-generation Hino Briska advertising • Hino
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